tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post170612992899992648..comments2023-10-31T06:25:46.016-04:00Comments on SLANTblog: Have gun will travailF.T. Reahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02042465274190082050noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-88247023002922887902008-07-03T15:33:00.000-04:002008-07-03T15:33:00.000-04:00Roy,My post was meant to calm down the anti-gun cr...Roy,<BR/><BR/>My post was meant to calm down the anti-gun crowd, more than anything else. The thing I'm happy about is that the decision didn't seem to take anything away from a government's ability to limit access to certain weapons, or to limit certain people from any access to firearms, when there is a compelling reason to do so. <BR/><BR/>As I've told you in conversations, I have no desire to keep citizens from owning handguns for self defense. But I want all sales recorded and all guns registered. <BR/><BR/>And, I want to limit access to exotic/military firepower to those who need it for their job. <BR/><BR/>From my cursory reading of it, this decision doesn't do anything to change much -- it underlined a right most people already thought they had.F.T. Reahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02042465274190082050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-21271244176908391772008-06-30T01:30:00.000-04:002008-06-30T01:30:00.000-04:00Terry, you said:'I think most people familiar with...Terry, you said:<BR/>'I think most people familiar with the actual wording of the Second Amendment had already morphed the right of a "militia" to bear arms into the right of an individual . . . will the pro-gun crowd defend the decision by referring to a "living constitution" that must change with the times?'<BR/> <BR/>I have no idea what they're teaching in the schools these days, but when I attended Fox Elementary, then Fork Union Military Academy, then Miller School, it was accepted that the "right to bear arms" applied to every citizen individually. There was not the faintest hint that a right which BENEFITED the militia was thereby RESTRICTED TO the militia.<BR/> <BR/>As a literally card-carrying member of the "pro-gun crowd" (I have a Concealed Handgun Permit), I assure you that this decision does not represent any sort of changing construction of the Constitution. <BR/> <BR/>If you're willing to do some reading, I'll be happy to loan you a compendium of statements from the Founders which make it very clear that they thought it proper that ALL citizens be armed, and that the "militia" referred to in the Second Amendment consisted of ALL able-bodied citizens.<BR/>-- RoyFreeRoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14269520490090087576noreply@blogger.com